News & Insight

Labour's New Towns: Back to the numbers game?

21 January 2014

New towns were invented in Britain, and the concept has since spread across the globe. Many, if not all, of the original motivations for building them are still with us today, and recently the concept has come back into vogue...

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Labour used to pioneer Black MPs - what happened?

21 January 2014

‘No taxation without representation’ is a well-known slogan. The Black population continues to pay their taxes but remain underrepresented as senior managers in both public and private sector organisations, the political and legal sphere, and higher positions in universities. It is...

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The Golden Temple raid: British Sikhs in shock

20 January 2014

Rarely does the release of government documents under the 30-year rule cause any community in the UK to question its own identity and result in front-page headlines internationally. But the revelations of two letters dated February 1984 from the Foreign and Commonwealth...

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Banking reform: Why moving your money matters

20 January 2014

On Friday, Labour leader Ed Miliband announced plans to break the monopoly of the big five UK banks, creating two new ‘challenger banks’ in a policy move designed to tap into raw public anger following the banking crisis, recent scandals...

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5 things we need from Miliband's speech

17 January 2014

1. Extend the narrative on injecting competition in dysfunctional markets Breaking up concentrations of power in the economy has been a continual theme in the Labour leader’s vision of a new economy. Injecting greater competition into a banking system in which...

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Ever closer union?

16 January 2014

The Labour party was formed to be the voice of ordinary working people in parliament; the unions the voice of ordinary working people in the workplace. We have had different challenges through the ages and we have not always acted...

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